the auroran sunset ([info]tithonus) wrote,
@ 2006-10-08 06:33:00
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TypeKey API manual problems
I've just posted this to lj_dev: it is hard to RTFM when the FM contains major errors. I still wonder if I'm missing something: surely with something this widely and successfully used, the manual couldn't possibly be that badly wrong! Surely!!

I shall just have to see if some helpful soul manages to explain why there is no error after all...


I really should go to bed. At least it works now, after a couple of days struggling with the manuals and relearning various algorithms I did at uni, but never used. Must buy algorithms book! Must SLEEP!!


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[info]korgmeister
2006-10-08 06:52 am UTC (link)
Ah yes, I remember this problem from back when I was using Linux.

Me: I need help with $PROBLEM

Unhelpful Linux Dork: RTFM N00b!

Me: Well, unlike the person who wrote the manual, I don't have Asperger's Syndrome, so I can't understand a fucking word of it.

ULD: Go back to fucking Windows, then.

The various Linux Fanboys then go back to their usual discussion about how the reason more people don't use Linux is because of Microsoft propaganda.

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[info]tithonus
2006-10-08 03:38 pm UTC (link)
:-) i know the feeling well. it does mean one does learn an incredible amount because you have to do it on your own, but hardly helpful to efficient production! i'm now on osx - i sort of get the best of both world: a unix-like backend and reliable frontend - in fact more reliable than ms. shame about the apple attitude of "it's so easy that we won't bother to tell you" - I remember hours of fun trying to work out what their instructions for using the scroll wheel on their ipods actually meant: very very easy once you work it out, but... :-)

my general impression is that most at lj aren't like your linux people, although there are idiots in or around any organisation.

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[info]korgmeister
2006-10-08 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Well, I certainly did learn alot in my year of using Linux, but I'm not really sure how useful much of it was, as frankly it's possible to do all of it much more easily in Windows.

Admittedly, I did manage to un-learn my bad security habits that I picked up in Windows 9x.

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[info]tithonus
2006-10-08 09:22 pm UTC (link)
i don't know. a lot of the networking stuff is useful study and the playing with source files. i can't think how you'd easily learn about this sort of thing first on windows - but it certainly helps when you go back to windows...

i always found i was more careful security-wise on windows: a mixture of it being too complicated on linux, and windows security being generally more of a worry. :-)

i did most of my linux fiddling at uni - it made a very good practical side to the very theoretical course i was on. *shrugs*.

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